yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Galaxy S II General] fabioascoelho:
Hello guys,

So, are you using CF-Root KG6 to root the KG7 firmware? Its the best option right?
[Galaxy S II General] Flowbax:
Worked for me. :D
[Galaxy S II General] radiobicho:
Flowbax : are you from Brazil? Are you using XXKG7?
[Galaxy S II General] raf2k:
Then it must be something wrong with my firmware. When I press "globe" icon to get language settings, the list is empty.

I'll try with factory reset.
[Galaxy S II General] tasty_boy:
installed again, got a boot loop...

no success at all...

dunno what to do!
[Galaxy S II General] radiobicho:
FACTORY RESET after flash XXKG5
[Galaxy S II General] Flowbax:
Sweden...

KG7 used only for theme modding. To be honest, I'm not seeing so much difference between KG1-7. Now I'm back on KG5.
[Galaxy S II General] radiobicho:
Flowbax : Great!!! Im from Portugal. Im on XXKG5 rooted with CF-Root KG6. Everything is fine. I flashed a Gtalk with video that i found somewhere on xda and i get video call. About SIP i use 12voip app... so, this XXKG5 is PERFECT!!
[Galaxy S II General] Flowbax:
If you are coming from KG6 and have rooted your phone then you get that loop sh*t. Like radiobicho said. FR is the only way to go.
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
That's right, if you're going backwards you will get a bootloop. Just factory reset and it will boot right up.
[Galaxy S II General] atilla88:
Guys i'm still on kg3 and had to reset the whole system to factory state including all sd's to get a annoying bug away which lets my contact pictures from my homescreen disappear sometimes.the question is- should i update to kg5,kg6 or kg7? Are they better?oh yes and i need gtalk.

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy S II General] pollo17385:
Hallo, im from uruguay and I just upgrade to KG7 via Kies.

My phone was UHKE2 before that.
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
CSC = TPA?
[Galaxy S II General] polyconvex:
I am from Germany and have been using the leaked XXKG3 firmware for some time now (with DBT CSC, which is included). I updated to XXKG5 today and noticed much more random rebooting than in KG3. Almost every 5 minutes or so there is a reboot in KG5. Also the GPS doesn't work at all in KG5. I have gone back to KG3 for the time being.
[Galaxy S II General] jerome.d:
When you do that, is your phone plugged in with the usb cable? When the phone is plugged in, there is no wake up lag (since every firmware I can remember of), but when the phone is not plugged in, it seems to go in deeper sleep and hence takes a little bit more time to wake up.

EDIT: ok, sorry, already mentioned elsewhere in the thread...
[Galaxy S II General] tasty_boy:
did a factory reset and everything goes ok, phone boots nicely

lost all the data, but at least phone is working!
[Galaxy S II General] cribeiro:
KG1 vs KG5 or KG6

If KG1 (I am using from it appeared) has all apps working practically perfect (has SIP VOIP, Gtalk has video, default browser has flash player, no Force Close, no significant lag in wake up with battery, good battery life, etc),

Please give your opinion why to move to KG5 or KG6 whose have no SIP VOIP and about lag and default browser flash player, some posts mention some doubts.

Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] Idan73:
This is just silly now (read post above this). Samsung needs 6 releases (4 leaks and 2 official) and almost 4 months to take away features given to us by google for free. Explanation that the operators in respective countries might have objected does not apply when we are talking about unlocked and unbranded devices. With no changelog, nothing seemimgly fixed or addressed.

We really need a poll that will serve as a petition for all issues and vote to decide urgency of demanded fixes to be sent out to samsung directly or via their facebook accounts.

It worked before for number of issue's.

And we can not wait too long either lest we repeat the episode with omnia HD (by the time petition was passed to Samsung the phone was deemed obsolete and abandoned and most issues were brushed asside as too expensive and not worth fixing) and get on top of it while the phone is still hot.

And no, I do not plan to sell my phone so perfectly satisfied people need not comment on this post in that manner.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
Let's have some fun with this. I'll pretend to be from Samsung and just received your complaints above in the form of a letter.

Here's my response:

Dear Mr. Idan73,

Thank you for taking the time to write Samsung, we value our customers. As I understand your complaint, you're saying that updates issued subsequent to the purchase of your phone don't contain features that you would like to see provided. Further, you've somehow come in to possession of software not intended for your phone that you claim was produced by Samsung and has some of the features you describe. You haven't mentioned previously available features of the software included with your phone being removed as updates have been issued so I'll assume all the standard features that existed at the time of purchase are intact.

1) From time to time, Samsung issues updates to our phones in order to ensure they are operating efficiently and securely. As stated in our warranty, we are under no obligation to provide additional features other than those available at time of purchase.

2) Samsung sells phones worldwide and certain countries and regions have specific software that might include features not provided on your phone at the time of purchase. We do however insure that software included at the time of purchase is supported on all of our phones through the product's end-of-life. Some regional versions of the phone may include features not present on your phone at the time of purchase or may be added subsequently.

3) Software not specifically and officially released by Samsung for a specific phone and installed via one of our official update mechanisms is considered grey market. The features, behavior, and specifications of this type of software, no matter how it is obtained, is not Samsung's responsibility and use of this software could void your phone's warranty.

I'll certainly pass your enhancement requests on to our product managers for consideration for potential future enhancements. Again, thank you for being a Samsung customer.

Thanks,

Samsung

;)
[Galaxy S II General] Idan73:
if you reread my first paragraph is just a general comment on the state of samsung updates and not a feature request.

the poll is regarding real or imaginary issues that plague this phone and have not being addressed since phones release and should have been or should be. i hope you dont suggest that if you buy a faulty or substandard (unless you consider 6 million phones with yellow and dark left side or gradient bug or aos bug a new standard cause they all have it or stop advertising it as best screen on the market or ....) of product of any type youre not entitled to complain because you bought it as such???. remember little episode with toyota recently, not that im implying that this is on the same level of the urgency as cars that speed up instead of braking???

but who needs samsung when we have you.

thanks for being samsung! you even sounded like their generic email response.

talk about futility!
[Galaxy S II General] fr3quency:
Greek keyboard in swype in KG5? Anyone? ^^;;
[Galaxy S II General] BarryH_GEG:
So there's 5,999,999 idiots and you're the only one that realizes we're all using a faulty and substandard product?
[Galaxy S II General] kitch9:
There's always one who brings the LOL hyperbole......
[Galaxy S II General] godutch:
This is not really true, Samsung signed the android update policy saying it will update devices to the latest version of android (if hardware permits it)
[Galaxy S II General] Jake-CT:
For me, KG3 seems to be the best of the bunch (video chat enabled, which was one of the main features of 2.3.4).

Two questions:

1. If I go back from kg6 will I need a factory reset.

2. There must be problems with kg3 I did not have chance to experience - what were they - or does it seem like samsung literally pulled the video feature out for an official release??
[Galaxy S II General] bracketb4d:
Hi, i have some confusion. what is the difference.between the Roms here and the Roms that Intratech posts in his Official rom thread in the dev section ? arent both official stock firmware and both include KG5 and kg7 ? are they for diff phone versions ?

Also reading people say kg5 is better than kg7, isnt it usually the higher number that is newer and better :)
[Galaxy S II General] sicopat:
Please, did someone tried to download attached files from xda using stock KG5 browser ? I always have download error ... :(
[Galaxy S II General] MudriGoga:
Where can I find the changelog of this version?
[Galaxy S II General] sicopat:
Not always the bigest the better ... ;)
[Galaxy S II General] nicpol7:
you can not..samsung does not publish changelogs
[Galaxy S II General] Idan73:
And by latest version according to some it implies changing the number from 2.3.3 to 2.3.4 only minus everything else because that is what came with the phone originally and that is all you are entitled to.

Sent from my GT-I9100
[Galaxy S II General] MudriGoga:
They didn't fixed the home button lag
[Galaxy S II General] Idan73:
Nah. I am sure few more in general section according to threads.
[Galaxy S II General] pik1:
there is nothing to fix. its not a bug, its a feature :D (deep sleep)
[Galaxy S II General] aydc:
This is not the first phone in the history of mankind that goes into deep sleep. All other phones sleep too but don't take so much time to wake up. It's like it's waiting for a handsome prince to kiss it to wake up. :) :)
[Galaxy S II General] pik1:
well, you know, my gf for example has also this really deep sleep, where she won't wake up when the alarm clock is ringing the first time... so i need to be the prince... :D
[Galaxy S II General] euphoria47:
Give it a redbull, that'll wake it up. Or better yet, throw a bucket of water on it.

Actually, I have noticed using a stock ROM that if you put it to sleep with the power button, and press the power button again within like 5 seconds, it will wake up immediately. Wait more than 5 seconds, it takes about 1 full second to wake up. Also if you allow it to fall asleep (i.e. not pressing the button but not touching anything till the screen goes to standby) it will take that full second. It is most certainly a deep sleep, I assume the processor clocks down, pressing the button winds it back up again. If it was always a fast wakeup, we'd have to leave our phones plugged in all the time
[Galaxy S II General] turborider:
every update from crapsung still the same and no changes,whats the freaking point buying a very expensive phone and they never tell us about changelog,cant wait to get rid of this piece of garbage plastic and get another one wich explain to costumers whats changes they made like htc does,u can say is good and is fast but is a plastic and all they bloody did is change some numbers on firmware,and the apps still the same old ones
[Galaxy S II General] ithehappy:
That's what happens if they release 1/2 update/s per month. We are just played by Samsung here, releasing an update and shut some users mouth as they expect a lot will come from this update, when basically some minor issues are fixed but no major ones. I always hate this rapid firmware update policies, they basically are worthless. What's the problem in wait 2/3 months, take their time and release a good/stable firmware update then?
[Galaxy S II General] turborider:
true true mate i agree with u
[Galaxy S II General] fr3quency:
hey guys, flashable Gtalk 1.3 .zip file? have been searching but didn't find it. ;-;
[Galaxy S II General] Dr.Sid:
Can somebody ho installed XXKG5 or XXKG6 check if there is Czech language in it ? Samfirmware says there is not. But there is Polish, Slovak, Hungarian .. it seems very unlikely that Czech would not be there. :confused:
[Galaxy S II General] Flowbax:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1056793
[Galaxy S II General] Flowbax:
Čeština is included in KG5. But not in Swype.
[Galaxy S II General] sergiu84:
Gents, calm down a bit... they're not excellent with updates - but do you prefer this, or SE's twice a year (or worse) often delayed schedule?

The phone and software really aren't that terrible, people often lose perspective really. For those above whingeing - try an iPhone, it might be more to your taste - I'm not being rude, I am genuinely suggesting it.
[Galaxy S II General] atilla88:
No chech language in kg5..
[Galaxy S II General] bracketb4d:
Can anyone please clarify this:

What is the difference between the Roms here and the Roms that Intratech posts in his Official rom thread in the dev section ? arent both official stock firmware and both include KG5 and kg7 ? are they for diff phone versions ?

What is the latest official samsung rom I should use on my unbranded S2 ? does CSC matter in deciding.
[Galaxy S II General] Flowbax:
This thread has 24 pages where probably all you questions are answered. Just start reading from page one and forward. Thread by Intratech has also a lot of answers. ;) Good luck!
[Galaxy S II General] xath23:
Oh really like HTC does? promising updates for months and when they finally deliver the update, its for developers or test reasons and you will lose warranty if flashed. Yeh thats so much better..

HTC is not what it used to be anymore really..

About the plastic.. I'm sure you knew about that from the beginning if you want a heavy and thick phone with bad reception. Buy an IPhone or go for the Sensation..

You should be happy to see so many updates, yes they are not perfect but keep in mind most of the lately released firmwares were LEAKED ones and obviously you won't get a changelog for that. You are not even supposed to use them.. Eventually they will post a changelog when the update hit's KIES in europe.

It could be alot worse, look at the guys buying LG phones after more than 6 months they still don't even have gingerbread. Hell not even their new 3D phone has gingerbread..

sorry for offtopic
[Galaxy S II General] atilla88:
Guys i flashed now the kg5 firmware and like all other 2.3.4 version my buddy pics on my homescreen disappear.whats going on?any solution for this?pls help
[Galaxy S II General] xath23:
If I were you I'd try a wipe, thats what I do after every flash and I don't have any problems with the buddy widget. Make sure to save your things before you wipe obviously..
[Galaxy S II General] andydotph:
How's the battery life on this new firmware?

Thanks! :)
[Galaxy S II General] atilla88:
I already tried 4 firmwares,wiped everything including the sd storage and its still there.everything else is great just these buddy widgets suck
[Galaxy S II General] ReeX:
seems no one using KG7... how is that? :)
[Galaxy S II General] atilla88:
Anyway.i'm back to kg2 and will stay.kg3 and kg5 were slow for me and the cpu was crazy but the best is that i have google video chat back.for thats really important
[Galaxy S II General] soysuperbien:
i was having the problem with the buddy widget, but why use it? creating a short cut to the contact is the same, and it doesn't mess the picture up
[Galaxy S II General] Sérgio Luís:
But this version has Brazilian Portuguese too.

Installed it and running fine.
[Galaxy S II General] RE795:
Anyone able to extract and post modem from UHKG7 :confused:

Much Thanks :):rolleyes:
[Galaxy S II General] MudriGoga:
Oh, Android OS eating up my buttery on both phones. I think to get back to XXKF2...
[Galaxy S II General] MasK:
K.. As for your phone going into deep sleep mode:

Your phone does wake up every now and then without you knowing it. Go check your battery stats where the full page graph is and you'll see it under "awake". This is normal.

Also.. there are some apps which gets stuck (or maybe this is the AOS bug everyone's talking about) and that keeps your phone awake ALL the time. Again, check this under battery stats and you'll see a continuous blue bar under "awake".

I get this once a while and I know this because the phone wakes up instantly. A reset clears this. Also, your batt drains real fast.

So, for those ppl who say they don't see the wake up lag, it's prolly:

1) Your phone is plugged in and charging

2) You have an active app like a media player running

3) You are using an app like "softLocker" to force your phone to be awake all the time

4) You happen to wake the device up the instant it's already awake for some ad-hoc activity

4) You have a faulty app which keeps the device awake although it's not supposed to

So.. I thank those who confirmed what I suspected.. thus saving my time from flashing KG6 to KG5.. And I also urge you (the ones I thank) to post any future findings you have that may solve this problem here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=15011538

In the meantime, I shall just practice my patience :p
[Galaxy S II General] davidalow44:
I'm using KG7 with the TTT CSC, was previously on KG1. From this thread, it sounds like KG7 is the same as KG5. There are some problems, but now I'm back on the Kies shining path. If Samsung is too slow on the Kies fixes, I may go back to KG1.
[Galaxy S II General] kwiatu5:
So I've installed XXKG5 on my SGS2 I9100.

I've noticed below issues:

1. The Wake up lag persists (but maybe it comes from deep sleeping as you said, i've give up with this bug, sorry)

2. TouchWiz is working worse. Lags and freezing smooth in moving beetween screens, some lags when you come back to home screen.

3. I can't say anything about battery because I've tested new ROM all the day, but battery lives 10h.

I haven't any extra applications now. Only accuweather, few icons and activity monitor, and few icons on another screen. Static wallpaper from predefined wallpapers.

I'm gonna leave for tests it, but I'm thinking about back to 2.3.3.
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
Yeah boi: http://www.multiupload.com/Z7DER040J4
[Galaxy S II General] yeeahnick:
which CF kernel did you use to root KG5?????
[Galaxy S II General] yeeahnick:
i wouldnt count on that, canada sucks with the updates, my gf`s galaxy s captivate is still waiting for a 2.3 update...
[Galaxy S II General] RE795:
thanks bro..

much appreciated :D:D:rolleyes:;)
[Galaxy S II General] babamike:
Hello all you experts, this is my first post. I just got my first android 3 weeks ago (sgs2) and I love the phone, already bought 2 more for friends. However always have the battery drain issue, WIFI zone everything was fine but in 3G zones it would get really hot and drain the battery. Turning Wifi OFF would cool the phone down (not connected to wifi in those zones anyway). I tried all the recommendations and latest leaks but still no fix.

Good news is this, ever since i installed Frankenstein KG6 (no wipe) everything is GREAT. No sudden heating at all, battery lasts around 18 hours compare to 12 hours before. Im a happy camper.

I dont want to take a chance with KG7 at this time may be KG8.
[Galaxy S II General] EarlZ:
I have heard of a user report that this XXKG5 release has no wake up lag, can anyone confirm?

Also are there any changes in color temperature like better white levels?
[Galaxy S II General] redzion:
KG3 for now stays.. better then all latests releases...
[Galaxy S II General] AmesCell:
I'm loving KG5 so far. Works great.
[Galaxy S II General] estpoc:
You can flash any older vulnerable kernel and root with super one click.

After roortin just flash KG7 (or whatever ROM you are using) kernel (not the whole ROM!) and you are all set, with the latest stock ROM rooted.
[Galaxy S II General] du.renato:
Good to know... Gonna root my KG7 asap then
[Galaxy S II General] TheBenzinator:
Yep. No wake up lag for Home button press.
[Galaxy S II General] Flowlance:
I have wakeup lag on kg5.
[Galaxy S II General] pollo17385:
Hallo,

I upgraded using KIES to the last oficial android 2.3.4, but I lost my ROOT privileges, how can I root it again? because i can't use an older kerner to do it, not??

Thanks
[Galaxy S II General] EleCtrOx666:
No there is. ;)
[Galaxy S II General] geekaren:
It is ok to reroot using an older kernel.
[Galaxy S II General] pollo17385:
dont I lose the last kernel in that way??.. After rerooting I'll keep the last kernel ???

Thanks in advance.
[Galaxy S II General] Patrat7:
you can just root using a kg6 kernal it will work fine, after rooting you can flash back to stock kernal and still have root access
[Galaxy S II General] lavazzabg:
Guys , is it 100% sure that if i flash KG5 over KG6 i will get into bootloop on never rooted phone?

If so, how do i do factory reset and do i have to disconect the phone from odin before doing the FR ?

10x in advance.
[Galaxy S II General] Intratech:
There's a thread for that: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1134290
[Galaxy S II General] lavazzabg:
Thanks for the link but is it 100% sure it gets into boot loop on an unrooted phone ?
[Galaxy S II General] dinoc:
Can someone check if Romanian swype and language is included with KG5, please ?
[Galaxy S II General] urfel:
Romana available on phone, but not in Swype.
[Galaxy S II General] shaq1907:
Is there Turkish language support in Swype and phone language in KG5? And is KG5 better and more stable than KG6?
[Galaxy S II General] ReeX:
Same route here. On kg1 now and wondering if makes sense switching to kg7. The only reason to do so is the media scanner being fixed.

Btw, to go back to kies do you need to flash back otiginal stock rom?

.
[Galaxy S II General] ascariss:
The wake up lag is still there but it is not a bother, i'd rather the phone save me battery life than wake up instantly.

My H+ connection speed went up oddly enough here in poland, from about 4.4Mbps to 5.2Mbps for download and upload from 1.5Mbps to 2.33Mbps.

Czech language for the device is on my phone, as is estonian, and a lot more others.

for swype, polish is there, as is german, italian, dutch, french, portuguese, spanish, and turkish and some asian language, maybe cantonese?

tbe phone is much faster, especially the back button, and the home key, I don't use Gtalk video so don't care, have skype with video now.

battery life, that remains to be seen.
[Galaxy S II General] ZaKaTRoN:
Hello!

I'm looking for KG5 wipe version.

Anyone know if KG5 from samfirmware is the official from Samsung?

And this one of this topic?

Are both the same?

Is Spanish Swype included?

I'm on KG6 but I want the official one, not leaked.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S II General] lavazzabg:
Which version are you coming from?
[Galaxy S II General] SaneQ:
This is the official KG5 KIES update for SGS II in Poland i think. It's as official as official can be. ;)
[Galaxy S II General] urfel:
And before:
[Galaxy S II General] davidalow44:
If I had it all to do over again, I would stay with XXKG1 until Samsung comes up with a superior Kies release. UHKG7 is a Kies release, recognized by Kies as the latest. But it is not superior imo. KG1 is a leaked release.

I had no problems with the KG1 media scanner.
[Galaxy S II General] solid102:
Can someone please explain or link me to the thread explain the difference between the KG5 and the other KGs. Thank you.
[Galaxy S II General] ZaKaTRoN:
Sorry, it was a copy & past from other topic...

Anyone know where can i get official KG5 3 files, I prefer wipe version.

Thanks!
[Galaxy S II General] lavazzabg:
+1 I need wipe too to avoid boot loop as i am on KG6.
[Galaxy S II General] itskapil:
Yep, I agree with you. Those fans of HTC shouldn't buy this phone - they don't understand quality. My friend's Incredible S looks as ugly as sin with scratches here and there in just 2 months but my galaxy S -- which is one year old now -- is still scratch-less.

All that HTC guys want a metal body that's so thick, bulky and looks so paper-weight. Plus, they struggle with S-Off, which thanks to Chainfire, is no problem with Samsung devices. I've been using Cf's tweaks on S1 and S2 and gotta say, he's one of the reason to go for Sammy's devices. But pat on Sammy's shoulders too, to produce bootloader-unlocked phones.

Anyway, S2 is selling like hotcakes -- 5 mil in just 55 days, breaking S1 record of 5 mil in 85 days. Those who hate S2 only deprive themselves of one GREAT phone to ever embrace mobile industry.

Hats off to Samsung for S2. S2 FTW !!